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J. H. BOWBRMAN. ELAST'IG 'TRBAD HORSESHOE.

Patented Jan. 30, 1894.

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JOSEPH H. BOl/VERMAN, OF SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO SAMUEL R. BOWERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

ELASTlC-TREgAD l-IORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,871, dated January 30,1894'.

Application iiled October l1, 1893. Serial No. 487,833. (No model) To a/ZZ whom it may con/cern,.-

Beit known that I, JosEPH H. BOWERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of South Haven, in the county of Van Buren Vand State of Michigan, have invented certain new` plan or top view of the shoe from the hoof side. Fig. 3 is an inverted perspective View of the under side of the shoe, with the rubber pad or facing removed. Fig. 4 is a cross section through thercomplete shoe on line xw-x in Fig. 2 and Fig. 5 is a cross section on line y--y of Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to horse shoes of the racing type; e'. e. shoes which are principally intended for fast horses, althoughI desire it to be understood that my style of shoe' may be used with advantage for ordinary purposes also, especially in localitieswhere the roads are hard and not spongy in character.

The novelty of myimprovement consists in the combination with the metal shoe proper of an elastic pad of peculiar construction, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

On the accompanying drawings, the letter Adenotes the body of the shoe, or shoe proper, which is preferably of mild steel, smooth and perfectly flat on the upper side, where it is nailed upon the hoof, but having a downwardly depending rim or flangel B, on the under Side extending from end to end of the shoe. This i'lange gradually tapers 'from the central portion ortoe, to the ends, the greatest'height being Vat the ends, as seen more clearly in Fig. 3, andby the dottedline in Fig. 4.

The 4letter D designates an elastic cushion,

conforming in contour to the part A made of rubber, or some equivalent elastic and resilient material, and is recessed or cutaway along its outer edge, forming a peripheral groove E, tapering gradually from the central or toe portion to the ends, similar to but in an opposite direction to flange B that is to say the thickest'part of the cushion bearing against the ange is at the front of the shoe, where.

the greatest wear takes place. After the cushion has been inserted with its broad part vD into the, seat or recess O, back of fiange B, it is fastened by means of three screws, F, viz: one at each end, where the heel-calks would be if any were used, and another at the middle, orat the arch or crown of the shoe, taking the place of the toe calk. The rubber pad or cushion D is countersunk, as shown atcl, to receive the beveled heads of these screws, so that they will lie fiat and even with the under side of the shoe, without projection. l The fiat part C of the metal shoe has a series lof oblong nail-holes c c, as usual; the heads of the nails (not shown) being covered and protected by the broad and thick part D of the rubber pad D.

{Io use this shoe, it is first nailed upon the hoof in the usual manner, the nails being properly clinched, after which the pad is insertedinto its seat C, with its recessed or depressed Vedge E overlapping the raised rim or liange B, and fastened down bythe nat-pointed screws F, when the shoe is ready for use. As there is no Wear whatever upon the metal part of the shoe, this will last a long time, and the rubber pad or sole can be easily removed and renewed whenever required, with very little trouble. and at small expense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. The combination with the metal shoe A, having a series of screw threaded apertures and nail holes, and formed with a downwardly depending ange B at its outer edge, extending from end to end of the shoe, of the elastic cushion D, formed with a peripheral groove at its upper edge, to receive the iiange B, and the screws passing through apertures in the said cushion and engaging with the screw flange, and the screws for securingsaideushthreaded apertures in the shoe A, substanion to the shoe, substantially as and for the tially as described. purpose specified. y

2. The combination with the metal shoe A, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as r 5 5 provided with screw threaded'apertures and my own I have hereunto atxed my signature nail holes, and formed with a downwardly eX- in presence of two witnesses. tending fiange on its outer edge, tapering Y f gradually from the toe or front to the ends JOSEPH H' IOWERMAN' or heel, of the elastic cushion D, having a Witnesses:

ro peripheral groovetapering from the toe gradm WM. N. COOK,

ally to the heel and forming a seat for said IRVING M. SMITH. 

